Photo courtesy of Wikicommons Images, Danbu14 CC BY-SA 3.0GH asks: "I have a question about a large Obelisk located outside of St. Peter’s basilica in Rome. I have read that new agers believe that obelisks embody the very presence of Lucifer. Why would our Holy Mother Church allow an obelisk to be erected just outside of St. Peter’s basilica?"
January 10
"Sin makes men accomplices of one another and causes concupiscence, violence, and injustice to reign among them."
-Catechism of the Catholic Church 1869
January 9
"For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own liking, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander into myths."
-2 Timothy 4:3-4
January 8
"Resist the devil and he will flee from you."
-James 4:7
January 7
"The chief exercise of prayer is to speak to God and to hear God speak in the bottom of your heart."
-St. Francis de Sales
January 6
"Prayer is not one occupation among many, but is at the center of our life in Christ."
-St. John Paul II
MS asks: "I'm seeing more and more advertisements for pet psychics at my vet's office. Are these people for real?"
January 4
"Then the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons."
- Gen. 3:7
In a short but moving testament to the Lord which was written just a year after he assumed the Chair of Peter, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI thanked God for guiding him “through all kinds of confusion” and issued a plea to all those who were entrusted to his service in the church to “Stand firm in the faith! Do not be confused!”
Believe it or not, a new game modeled on a Ouija board that claims to facilitate communication with Jesus is actually being sold on Amazon! But that’s not the worst of the story.
